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What does that have to do with it?

At no point did I mentioned artoids anywhere in my explanation of the concept. I have no beef with them. What they do will always be special and I respect them as craftsmen and as much as my working life affords me I try to partake in creativity in my spare time (music), I think it is good for the soul.

In fact I stated to begin with in my previous comment that I and most people cannot draw.

The entire reason that open source imagegen models are a good thing is precisely because it puts these means of production into the hands of the working class masses doing grunt work for a living in actual trades/skills because they have no other options to put food on the table and cannot afford to fail or they will perish - rather than the select few art school petit-bourgeouise who can afford the (only increasing) uncertainty of that life path due to privileged material circumstances (e.g. 'bank of mum and dad')

In fact I also as a programmer absolutely advocate for more people using LLMs to build FOSS without programming knowledge or only a limited grasp, even if it cheapens what I do as a skill - because access to knowledge and skills I have is absolutely privilege and nothing else.

We can fashion a world of our own and not one designed for us by corporations, the fediverse is similar in that regard, and so was the internet with it's ability to subvert drug prohibitions, copyright laws and information censorship and facilitate organising.

Whether you subscribe to bourgeoise notions like "talent" (which in reality means funded by bank of mum and dad and allowed a safety net to fail that working people are not, same as "entrepreneurial") or not Is up to you, point is that this allows us to subvert capitalist art with stuff made by the people for the people outside of the system entirely for no capital value whatsoever, a culture of pure information sharing and art for its own sake.

I could likewise claim that having a CS degree means I'm just smart and others who do not have it are simply too stupid to have it and hence they don't, but I don't, because I'm not an edgy 14 year old and I understand that it's just insividualistic neoliberal drivel that only the most deluded "temporarily embarrassed billionaires" believe at best and Social Darwinism/Class Essentialism at worst - views aschewed even by most neolibs nevermind leftists (or so one would hope).

I wouldn't want to associate with any comrades so authoritarian (borderline totalitarian really) and short-sighted that they cannot see how good of a thing this is for the working class if corporations don't have the power over the technology, but I am happy to educate further.

EDIT: As with any technology it's value neutral and can easily also be subverted by corporations to fuck as over, but if the left is to be effective it needs to start offering solutions and taking advantage of the world of technology we live in now rather than purely criticizing things like this on a very surface level due to viewing everything through a 20th century lens.